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The effect your location has on you is far greater than people give credit to.

I can’t stand cold weather, every year for 5-6 months in Melbourne I would just not be mentally right because of the cold. People would mock me for wearing scarfs and gloves and heavy jackets (considered overkill in Melbourne) but I didn’t care because it made something I personally found intolerable, slightly better. Come summer, my general mood and well-being would always be much improved and what I realised to be normal for me.

You need to understand yourself to be able to properly grapple with this, but a change of scenery/location can be very reinvigorating.

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Brisket 3d ago

I kept telling you to move to Queensland man.

StackSats.IO 3d ago

That you did.

My work relied on my network in Melbourne and once I was ready to leave that, I wasn’t going to stay in Aus; I needed out of not just the cold, but the Karen-dominated/prison warden culture.

Brisket 3d ago

Again Queensland is very different to Victoria culturally.

We mostly DGAF.

StackSats.IO 3d ago

True the people are more chill up there.

But you’re still subject to Canberra’s karenisms; can’t escape what net zero policy will do to Australian’s energy bills by moving interstate.

Luxas 3d ago

Is the communism of Vietnam better than Aus karenism?

StackSats.IO 3d ago

Yes, absolutely hands down.

Vietnam doesn’t have a welfare system (no NDIS rorting here) as westerners would understand it and yet ~1% poverty rate compared to Aus at 14%.

Instead they heavily subsidise energy/petrol and maintain a huge military (people have said that’s partially a jobs program but you can also understand that they want to defend themselves given their history).

Much much lower income, business and land taxes, very little regulation - it’s way more free market here which is weird to think about.

Don’t have the government here trying to displace their people with foreign labour or imposing lunatic net zero policy.

You have much less interaction with the system here and generally peoples lives are improving due to the lack of interference. Karenism seeps into every aspect of your life and brow beats you while doing so.

Brisket 3d ago

I'm on land away from populated areas.

You'd be surprised how little I have to do with the federal govt these days.

I'm even managing to avoid the state & local governments.

Nostr taught me the importance of my attention. I live in a blissful bubble of ignorance & my stressed out in-laws lecture me that I should watch the news. 🤣

StackSats.IO 3d ago

Yeah your setup would be fine by me, I grew up in the country and prefer solitude. But my missus is a city girl and would go stir crazy in a week, she loses it when the power goes out 😂

Luxas 3d ago

Even the winter months in Adelaide do my head in and the weather is way better than Melbs, butI keep thinking of a move to FNQ... I just wish Cairns wasn't so run down and you didn't have to go ~40mins to islands for beaches without salties.

Brizzy is nice, but need the beach to be closer. I've yet to checkout Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast, but the photos by nostr:nprofile1qqsvlca5x9keq5e4km8q26aqas3skkr6xdpcr6ptlxsz5xz095rglrghpskwu look amazing.

Efrat Fenigson 3d ago

Yes.

That’s why I left Melbourne finally. After 6 years. And now left israel…

noobslayer69 3d ago

Bro, it's minus 15 here. And I feel alive.

Can't get enough of the cold.

Do you. 💪

StackSats.IO 3d ago 💬 1

Some people thrive in the cold and are sharpened by it, they tend to get sluggish in heat.

I’m warm blooded. Give me 32-35 celsius + 75% humidity and I’ll be full of energy, I’m sluggish in the cold.

noobslayer69 3d ago

Can confirm. I'm useless when the heat hits. Haha

MrTea 3d ago

I enjoy all 4 seasons for that reason. It’s 40C in the summer here and -18C in the winter. I do enjoy visiting places that are different but I don’t know if I’d cope without having the extremes from time to time